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General structure of Sunday Matins
While some sections of Matins follow the eight-[[tone]] cycle, others follow the eleven-part cycle of the Resurrectional Gospels (the [[eothinon|eothina]]).
*Sunday Matins, when served apart from a [[All-Night Vigil|vigil]] opens with the [[priest]]Priest's exclamation "Blessed is our God...", *The choir responds "Amen." and the Priest reads "Glory to Thee..." & the prayer "Heavenly King..."
*The Reader reads the Trisayion Prayers.
*The Priest exclaims "For Thine is...
*After Psalms 19 & 20 the Reader reads the Trisayion prayers.
*The Priest exclaims "For Thine is..."
*The[[reader]] Reader reads the [[Royal Troparia]] .*The Priest exclaims the first three petitions of the Fervent Supplication (Have mercy upon us O God..." and then exclaims "For Thou art a Good God..." The choir responds "Amen. In the name of the Lord, save thy people and Father bless your inheritance." The Priest exclaims "Glory to the Holy...").*The [[priest]] offers a brief [[litany]] while censing around Reader with the fear of God exclaims "Glory to God in the altarhighest.*The [[Hexapsalmos|hexapsalmos]] ." (thrice), "Lord Thou shalt open my lips..." ([[twice and then reads the Six Psalms]]: 3(Three, 37Thirty-Seven, 62Sixty Two, 87Eighty Seven, 102Hundred and Two, and 142 - [[Septuagint]] numberingHundred and Fourty Two.) are Selected verses from each Psalm is read at the end of each Psalm. "Glory. Both now." "Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Glory to Thee O God" "Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy." "Glory. Both now." is readin the middle of the Six Psalms. *The deacon (or in some traditions, priest) Deacon intones the Great Litany , at the end of Peacewhich the Priest exclaims "For unto Thee..."*''Theos kyrios'' (The Choir, in the Tone of the week, chants "God is the Lord"with its appointed verses. The Resurrectional Apolytikion follow (always twice) and "Glory" that of the Saint, "Both now" the Theotokion in the Tone of the [[apolytikion|apolytikia]] are [[chant]]edSaint's Apolyikion.*The [[kathismata]] are chantedDeacon intones the Small Litany, at the end of which the Priest exclaims "For Thine is the dominion..."*The small litany*The [[sessional hymn]]s*The reader Choir chants the [[evlogetaria]] Kathismata of the Tone of the week after the 1st and 2nd readings of the Psalter (''Blessed the Psalter readings are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes''not read in common practice).*The small [[litany]] is offered again by Choir straightaway after chanting the Kathismata chants the deacon (or in some traditions, priest)Evlogytaria.*The [[hypakoe]] is read by Deacon intones the chanter to prepare for Small Litany, at the message end of which the Gospel readingPriest exclaims "For blessed is Thy name..."*The [[anavathmoi]] (hymns Reader reads the Ypakoi of the Tone of ascent) are chantedthe week.*The [[prokeimenon]] Choir sings the Songs of Ascent of the Tone of the week, which is chantedfollowed by the Prokeimenon and its verse.*The order of the Gospel is followed: the deacon Deacon intones "Let us pray to the Lord...", the priest Choir responds "Lord have mercy." The Priest exclaims "For Holy art Thou our God..." The Choir responds with a prayer, "Amen" and the chanter sings three times, then chants "Let everything that breathes praise has breath..." (thrcie). The Deacon exclaims "That we may be vouchsafed to listen..." The Choir responds "Lord have mercy." (thrice). The Deacon then exclaims "Wisdom. Arise let us listen..." and the Priest exclaims "Peace be unto all." The Priest exclaims "From the Gospel according to..." The Choir responds "Glory to Thee O Lord..."and the Deacon exclaims "Let us attend!" The Priest now reads the appointed Resurrectional Gospel (Eothinon) for the Sunday. One of eleven eothina Gospels is read by He reads it from the priest; these Gospels each address a different part right side of the [[Resurrection]] narrative, because it is Sunday, Holy Alter Table. After the feast of Gospel reading the ResurrectionChoir chants "Glory to Thee O Lord.. ''"*The Reader reads "Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ ...'' is read by the chanter."*The 50th Psalm is chanted, always in the 2nd Tone.
*Then the following hymns are usually sung:
 : "Glory..." "Through the prayers intercessions of the Apostles..." "Both now.." "Through the prayers intercessions of the Theotokos..." "Have mercy on me, O God..." "Jesus having risen..."  :However, on * On Sundays of the Triodion (excluding Palm Sunday, or a Sunday on which Annunciation might fall), the following hymns are sung: :"Glory..." "The doors of repentance..." "Both now..." "Guide me in the paths of salvation..." "Have mercy on me, O God..." "When I think of the multitude of evil things I have done..." *The deacon prays, Priest exclaims "O God, save thy people and bless thine inheritance..."*The [[Canon (hymn)|canons]] are is now chantedin the following order: first and third odes The Choir chants the 1st Ode of the Resurrectional Canon (each ode beginning with an [[irmos]] and ending with a [[katavasia]]; small litany; [[kontakion]] Tone of the secondary and/or tertiary commemorationweek), the Canon to the Theotokos (sTone of the week) , and the Canon of the Saint of the day; [[sessional Hymn]]. They then chant the 1st Ode's; small litany; fourthsesonal Katavasia. The 3rd Ode is chanted in the exact same manner. *After the Katavsia of the 3rd Ode the Deacon intones the Little Litany, fifth at the end of which the Priest exclaims "For Thou art our God..."*The Reader reads the Saint's Kontakion and sixth odes; small litany; kontakionOikos, [[oikos]], synaxarion (commemorating if there is one. The Choir then chants the Kathisma "After the 3rd Ode."*The Reader reads the [[saint]]s following Odes of the [[Church Calendar|Canon as follows: Ode 4 to Ode 8 (Resurrectional, Theotokos, Saint of day]]); .*The Choir immediatly begins to chant the seventh and eighth odessesonal Katavasia of Odes 4 to 6. (According to *The Deacon intones the contemporary Greek parish practiceLittle Litany, the [[katavasia]]e are not sung at the end of each odewhich the Priest exclaims "For Thou art the King of Peace..."*The Reader reads the Resurrectional Kontakion & Oikos of the Tone of the week, but rather those for odes 1 through 8 are all sung together at followed by the end Synaxarion of the eighth ode, then Day from the Matins Gospel is read Menaion (rather than before the see after 6th Ode of Saint's canon as above)).*The chanter sings Choir chants the [[Magnificat]] while Katavasies of the deacon [[censer|censes]] the [[church]]7th and 8th Odes.*The Deacon exclaims "The Theotokos and Mother of Light..."*The ninth ode, ending Choir sings "Higher in honour then the Cherubim..." with its katavasia is verses. The 9th Ode of the Canon immediatly follows, in the exact way the 1st Ode was chanted. During the 9th Ode, the Deacon censes the Temple.*The deacon again prays Deacon intones the Little Litany, at the small litanyend of which the Priest exclaims "All the choirs of angels bless Thee, and to Thee do we send up glory..."*The Choir chants "Holy is the Lord our God". After, they chant the corresponding Exaposteilarion to the Matins Gospel.*The Choir chants the Praises in the Tone of the week: "Let everything that has breath" and "Praise Him all His angels..." *The [[exaposteilarion|exaposteilaria]] (hymns related to Reader reads the rest of the dayPsalm's Gospel, or verses up until the verse "To do in them..." *The Choir chants the Stihira of the day's feast) are chantedPraises.*The praises (also called lauds or ''[[ainoi]]'') are chanted slowly (Choir chants "Glory"Let everything that breathes praise and the corresponding Doxasticon to the LordMatins Gospel.*The Choir chants ")Both now... Most blessed art thou, followed by the appointed sticheraVirgin Theotokos..."*The Choir chants the Great [[Doxology]] in the Tone of the week.*The Choir chants if Tones 1 - 4 "Today is chantedsalvation..." and if Tones Pl. 1st - Pl. 4th "Having risen... "*The litanies Deacon intones the Litany of Fervent Supplication, at the end of which the Priest exclaims "For a merciful..."Have mercy on us*The Deacon intones the Litany of Completion, O at the end of which the Priest exclaims "For Thou art a good God..."*The Priest exclaims "Peace be unto all..." and the Deacon intones "Let us complete bow our morning heads..."*The Priest reads silently the "Prayer at the Bowing of the Heads..." and then exclaims "Thine it is to have mercy..."*The Deacon intones "Wisdom", the Choir "Bless", the Priest "Blessed is the existing One..."*The Reader reads the prayer"Establish Lord God..."*The Priest exclaims "Most Holy Theotokos save us!"*The Reader reads "More honourable..." and "Glory. Both now" "Lord have mercy" (according thrice) "Holy Father bless!"*The Priest reads the Dismissal "Glory to contemporary Greek parish practiceThee our God... May He who has Risen from the dead, these litanies Christ our true God..."*The Reader reads "Come let us worship..." and all that follows are said quietly by the priest and deacon during the praises if the 1st Hour.*The Divine Liturgy is immediately to follow)served.*The [[Dismissal]]
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